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Life in the City of Dirty Water
by Clayton Thomas-Muller • 2021
He learned violence in Winnipeg's gangs. A sweat lodge showed him what was worth protecting.
3.65
4k+
🏙️ Urban Indigenous Life🌍 Environmental Justice🪶 Cultural Reclamation💔 Intergenerational Trauma🚪 Gang Exit Narratives
Life in the City of Dirty Water Summary
Life in the City of Dirty Water 94%
He learned violence in Winnipeg's gangs. A sweat lodge showed him what was worth protecting.
by Clayton Thomas-Muller 2021
3.65
4k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Indigenous Life🌍 Environmental Justice🪶 Cultural Reclamation💔 Intergenerational Trauma🚪 Gang Exit Narratives
Oil and Honey
by Bill McKibben • 2013
While he fought pipelines, his beekeeper friend built a different answer to a warming world.
3.90
1k+
🌍 Climate Activism📝 Environmental Memoir✊ Grassroots Organizing💰 Fossil Fuel Divestment🌾 Sustainable Agriculture
Oil and Honey Summary
Oil and Honey 93%
While he fought pipelines, his beekeeper friend built a different answer to a warming world.
by Bill McKibben 2013
3.90
1k+ ratings
🌍 Climate Activism📝 Environmental Memoir✊ Grassroots Organizing💰 Fossil Fuel Divestment🌾 Sustainable Agriculture
Sastun
by Rosita Arvigo • 1994
A Chicago transplant in Belize becomes the last apprentice of a 92-year-old Maya shaman.
4.38
678
🪴 Ethnobotany💊 Traditional Medicine🌿 Plant Medicine✨ Spiritual Healing🥁 Shamanic Practice
Sastun Summary
Sastun 93%
A Chicago transplant in Belize becomes the last apprentice of a 92-year-old Maya shaman.
by Rosita Arvigo 1994
4.38
678 ratings
🪴 Ethnobotany💊 Traditional Medicine🌿 Plant Medicine✨ Spiritual Healing🥁 Shamanic Practice
Climate Justice
by Mary Robinson • 2018
Climate change is a human rights crisis. Frontline communities are showing the world how to respond.
4.06
3k+
⚖️ Climate Justice✊ Human Rights🌱 Grassroots Activism🌿 Indigenous Knowledge👩‍💼 Women's Leadership
Climate Justice Summary
Climate Justice 93%
Climate change is a human rights crisis. Frontline communities are showing the world how to respond.
by Mary Robinson 2018
4.06
3k+ ratings
⚖️ Climate Justice✊ Human Rights🌱 Grassroots Activism🌿 Indigenous Knowledge👩‍💼 Women's Leadership
I, Rigoberta Menchu / Who Is Rigoberta Menchu? by Rigoberta Menchu
by Rigoberta Menchú • 1984
Her brother was tortured. She learned Spanish and the Bible to build a peasant uprising.
3.86
7k+
🧱 Indigenous Resistance✝️ Liberation Theology🎙️ Testimonio Literature🪶 Mayan Culture🌽 Peasant Movements
I, Rigoberta Menchu / Who Is Rigoberta Menchu? by Rigoberta Menchu Summary
I, Rigoberta Menchu / Who Is Rigoberta Menchu? by Rigoberta Menchu 93%
Her brother was tortured. She learned Spanish and the Bible to build a peasant uprising.
by Rigoberta Menchú 1984
3.86
7k+ ratings
🧱 Indigenous Resistance✝️ Liberation Theology🎙️ Testimonio Literature🪶 Mayan Culture🌽 Peasant Movements
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer • 2013
Two sciences braided: a Potawatomi botanist on why plants are teachers and earth is a gift.
4.51
177k+
📜 Traditional Ecological Knowledge🎁 Gift Economy🌿 Nature Connection🌱 Ecological Restoration🌍 Environmental Philosophy
Braiding Sweetgrass Summary
Braiding Sweetgrass 93%
Two sciences braided: a Potawatomi botanist on why plants are teachers and earth is a gift.
by Robin Wall Kimmerer 2013
4.51
177k+ ratings
📜 Traditional Ecological Knowledge🎁 Gift Economy🌿 Nature Connection🌱 Ecological Restoration🌍 Environmental Philosophy
When It All Burns
by Jordan Thomas • 2025
A hotshot watches a megafire push ancient sequoias toward extinction and asks who lit the fuse.
4.36
2k+
🌲 Fire Ecology🔥 Wildfire History🌾 Cultural Burning💰 Disaster Capitalism🛢️ Climate Denialism
When It All Burns Summary
When It All Burns 93%
A hotshot watches a megafire push ancient sequoias toward extinction and asks who lit the fuse.
by Jordan Thomas 2025
4.36
2k+ ratings
🌲 Fire Ecology🔥 Wildfire History🌾 Cultural Burning💰 Disaster Capitalism🛢️ Climate Denialism
Red Skin, White Masks
by Glen Sean Coulthard • 2014
State recognition is a colonial trap: real Indigenous freedom demands turning away from it entirely.
4.46
941
🌍 Settler Colonialism🗳 Indigenous Politics📖 Decolonial Theory🌲 Land-Based Resistance💰 Anti-Capitalism
Red Skin, White Masks Summary
Red Skin, White Masks 93%
State recognition is a colonial trap: real Indigenous freedom demands turning away from it entirely.
by Glen Sean Coulthard 2014
4.46
941 ratings
🌍 Settler Colonialism🗳 Indigenous Politics📖 Decolonial Theory🌲 Land-Based Resistance💰 Anti-Capitalism
Blessed Unrest
by Paul Hawken • 2007
A vast, leaderless movement is quietly restoring both the earth and human dignity.
3.94
2k+
🌍 Environmental Activism⚖️ Climate Justice🌱 Grassroots Movements🕸️ Decentralized Networks🔄 Systems Thinking
Blessed Unrest Summary
Blessed Unrest 93%
A vast, leaderless movement is quietly restoring both the earth and human dignity.
by Paul Hawken 2007
3.94
2k+ ratings
🌍 Environmental Activism⚖️ Climate Justice🌱 Grassroots Movements🕸️ Decentralized Networks🔄 Systems Thinking
Red Paint
by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe • 2022
Medicine failed her. She drove to the Skagit River and let ancestral waters do the healing.
4.12
3k+
🪶 Indigenous Memoir🧬 Intergenerational Trauma🌿 Cultural Reclamation✍🏽 Native Women Writers🕯️ Ancestral Healing
Red Paint Summary
Red Paint 93%
Medicine failed her. She drove to the Skagit River and let ancestral waters do the healing.
by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe 2022
4.12
3k+ ratings
🪶 Indigenous Memoir🧬 Intergenerational Trauma🌿 Cultural Reclamation✍🏽 Native Women Writers🕯️ Ancestral Healing
The Serviceberry
by Robin Wall Kimmerer • 2024
Nature's economy is a gift economy. An ecologist shows how it works, and why markets can't.
4.27
70k+
🧙🏽 Indigenous Wisdom🎁 Gift Economies🧠 Traditional Ecological Knowledge📊 Ecological Economics🤝 Commons Stewardship
The Serviceberry Summary
The Serviceberry 92%
Nature's economy is a gift economy. An ecologist shows how it works, and why markets can't.
by Robin Wall Kimmerer 2024
4.27
70k+ ratings
🧙🏽 Indigenous Wisdom🎁 Gift Economies🧠 Traditional Ecological Knowledge📊 Ecological Economics🤝 Commons Stewardship
Soil Not Oil
by Vandana Shiva • 2008
Biofuels starve people, carbon markets fake progress, the real climate solution is under your feet.
4.08
535
🏭 Industrial Agriculture⚖️ Environmental Justice🌾 Food Sovereignty🌱 Organic Farming🌿 Seed Saving
Soil Not Oil Summary
Soil Not Oil 92%
Biofuels starve people, carbon markets fake progress, the real climate solution is under your feet.
by Vandana Shiva 2008
4.08
535 ratings
🏭 Industrial Agriculture⚖️ Environmental Justice🌾 Food Sovereignty🌱 Organic Farming🌿 Seed Saving
Providence
by Daniel Quinn • 1994
A week of uncanny coincidences sets him on a fifty-year search for the story humanity forgot.
3.70
1k+
📖 Spiritual Memoir🌍 Ecological Philosophy🔮 Animism🏛️ Civilization Critique🌱 Ecological Belonging
Providence Summary
Providence 92%
A week of uncanny coincidences sets him on a fifty-year search for the story humanity forgot.
by Daniel Quinn 1994
3.70
1k+ ratings
📖 Spiritual Memoir🌍 Ecological Philosophy🔮 Animism🏛️ Civilization Critique🌱 Ecological Belonging
God Is Red
by Vine Deloria Jr. • 1972
Indigenous peoples root religion in land; Christians in time, and the planet pays the price.
4.16
2k+
📖 Indigenous Theology🏞️ Sacred Geography✊ Decolonial Religion🌍 Ecotheology🌐 Worldview Clash
God Is Red Summary
God Is Red 92%
Indigenous peoples root religion in land; Christians in time, and the planet pays the price.
by Vine Deloria Jr. 1972
4.16
2k+ ratings
📖 Indigenous Theology🏞️ Sacred Geography✊ Decolonial Religion🌍 Ecotheology🌐 Worldview Clash
This Changes Everything
by Naomi Klein • 2014
Capitalism demands endless growth. The climate demands we stop. Only one can win.
4.16
28k+
🏛️ Climate Politics🌹 Eco-Socialism⚖️ Climate Justice🛢️ Fossil Fuel Industry🟢 Greenwashing
This Changes Everything Summary
This Changes Everything 92%
Capitalism demands endless growth. The climate demands we stop. Only one can win.
by Naomi Klein 2014
4.16
28k+ ratings
🏛️ Climate Politics🌹 Eco-Socialism⚖️ Climate Justice🛢️ Fossil Fuel Industry🟢 Greenwashing
Red Nation Rising
by Nick Estes • 2021
Every American town is a bordertown, built on stolen land and guarded by scalp hunters' heirs.
4.38
159
🏚️ Settler Colonialism🗳️ Native American Politics✊ Indigenous Resistance🚫 Police Abolition🌱 Decolonization
Red Nation Rising Summary
Red Nation Rising 92%
Every American town is a bordertown, built on stolen land and guarded by scalp hunters' heirs.
by Nick Estes 2021
4.38
159 ratings
🏚️ Settler Colonialism🗳️ Native American Politics✊ Indigenous Resistance🚫 Police Abolition🌱 Decolonization
The Legacy
by David Suzuki • 2010
GDP counts car crashes as growth. An elder's vision for measuring what actually sustains us.
4.21
492
🌍 Environmental Philosophy🌱 Traditional Ecological Knowledge📉 Post-Growth Economics🌳 Ecosystem Services💚 Biophilia
The Legacy Summary
The Legacy 92%
GDP counts car crashes as growth. An elder's vision for measuring what actually sustains us.
by David Suzuki 2010
4.21
492 ratings
🌍 Environmental Philosophy🌱 Traditional Ecological Knowledge📉 Post-Growth Economics🌳 Ecosystem Services💚 Biophilia
How Forests Think
by Eduardo Kohn • 2013
Thought lives in forests, jaguars, and signs. Anthropology has never known how to listen.
3.86
1k+
🌴 Amazonian Ethnography🕸️ Multispecies Ethnography🧬 Biosemiotics🌍 More-Than-Human✨ Animism
How Forests Think Summary
How Forests Think 92%
Thought lives in forests, jaguars, and signs. Anthropology has never known how to listen.
by Eduardo Kohn 2013
3.86
1k+ ratings
🌴 Amazonian Ethnography🕸️ Multispecies Ethnography🧬 Biosemiotics🌍 More-Than-Human✨ Animism
Life Lessons From the Amazon
by Pip Stewart • 2021
Paddling an uncharted Amazon river, she found the sharpest lessons had nothing to do with survival.
4.08
194
🏕️ Expedition Memoirs🌴 Rainforest Adventure🧭 Female Explorers🪓 Wilderness Survival🌿 Nature And Wellbeing
Life Lessons From the Amazon Summary
Life Lessons From the Amazon 92%
Paddling an uncharted Amazon river, she found the sharpest lessons had nothing to do with survival.
by Pip Stewart 2021
4.08
194 ratings
🏕️ Expedition Memoirs🌴 Rainforest Adventure🧭 Female Explorers🪓 Wilderness Survival🌿 Nature And Wellbeing
The Climate Book
by Greta Thunberg • 2022
Since 1991, we've emitted more CO2 than in all prior history; cures exist, the politics don't.
4.41
3k+
⚖️ Climate Justice⚡ Energy Transition✊ Climate Activism🌿 Indigenous Knowledge🚫 Climate Denialism
The Climate Book Summary
The Climate Book 92%
Since 1991, we've emitted more CO2 than in all prior history; cures exist, the politics don't.
by Greta Thunberg 2022
4.41
3k+ ratings
⚖️ Climate Justice⚡ Energy Transition✊ Climate Activism🌿 Indigenous Knowledge🚫 Climate Denialism
Where White Men Fear to Tread
by Russell Means • 1995
How a California street kid reclaimed his Lakota identity and led the occupation of Mount Rushmore.
4.14
1k+
🪶 Lakota Culture✊ Indigenous Activism🏫 Boarding School Legacy🌱 Cultural Reclamation📜 Treaty Rights
Where White Men Fear to Tread Summary
Where White Men Fear to Tread 92%
How a California street kid reclaimed his Lakota identity and led the occupation of Mount Rushmore.
by Russell Means 1995
4.14
1k+ ratings
🪶 Lakota Culture✊ Indigenous Activism🏫 Boarding School Legacy🌱 Cultural Reclamation📜 Treaty Rights
Heroes of the Environment
by Harriet Rohmer • 2009
A teen cleans polluted water. A wrestler teaches recycling. Twelve environmental heroes in action.
3.95
147
🪧 Environmental Activism🌱 Grassroots Organizing⭐ Youth Leadership🏙️ Urban Farming☀️ Renewable Energy
Heroes of the Environment Summary
Heroes of the Environment 92%
A teen cleans polluted water. A wrestler teaches recycling. Twelve environmental heroes in action.
by Harriet Rohmer 2009
3.95
147 ratings
🪧 Environmental Activism🌱 Grassroots Organizing⭐ Youth Leadership🏙️ Urban Farming☀️ Renewable Energy
The Sacred Balance
by David Suzuki • 1997
You are made from the planet's air, water, and soil. Forgetting this is the emergency.
4.14
2k+
🏔️ Deep Ecology🌿 Sacred Ecology⚖️ Environmental Ethics🤝 Human-Nature Connection🌍 Earth Systems
The Sacred Balance Summary
The Sacred Balance 92%
You are made from the planet's air, water, and soil. Forgetting this is the emergency.
by David Suzuki 1997
4.14
2k+ ratings
🏔️ Deep Ecology🌿 Sacred Ecology⚖️ Environmental Ethics🤝 Human-Nature Connection🌍 Earth Systems
We Survived the Night
by Julian Brave NoiseCat • 2025
A newborn found in a residential school incinerator. His son's memoir of survival and return.
4.27
1k+
📖 Indigenous Memoir🏫 Residential Schools🧬 Intergenerational Trauma🌎 Native Sovereignty🗣️ Oral Storytelling
We Survived the Night Summary
We Survived the Night 91%
A newborn found in a residential school incinerator. His son's memoir of survival and return.
by Julian Brave NoiseCat 2025
4.27
1k+ ratings
📖 Indigenous Memoir🏫 Residential Schools🧬 Intergenerational Trauma🌎 Native Sovereignty🗣️ Oral Storytelling
How to Change Everything
by Naomi Klein • 2021
Fossil fuels made the crisis. Young people are making the solution. Here's the playbook.
3.89
922
🌍 Climate Justice🤝 Collective Action✊ Intersectional Environmentalism📢 Young Activists🌱 Green New Deal
How to Change Everything Summary
How to Change Everything 91%
Fossil fuels made the crisis. Young people are making the solution. Here's the playbook.
by Naomi Klein 2021
3.89
922 ratings
🌍 Climate Justice🤝 Collective Action✊ Intersectional Environmentalism📢 Young Activists🌱 Green New Deal
Let Me Speak
by Domitila Barrios de Chungara • 1978
Dead by 35, paid pennies: a Bolivian miner's wife on why women's liberation requires revolution.
4.25
424
🗣️ Testimonio⛏️ Mining Communities✊ Socialist Feminism🪧 Worker Organizing⚒️ Class Struggle
Let Me Speak Summary
Let Me Speak 91%
Dead by 35, paid pennies: a Bolivian miner's wife on why women's liberation requires revolution.
by Domitila Barrios de Chungara 1978
4.25
424 ratings
🗣️ Testimonio⛏️ Mining Communities✊ Socialist Feminism🪧 Worker Organizing⚒️ Class Struggle
Medicine River
by Mary Annette Pember • 2025
A dress with 365 jingles: one Ojibwe woman dancing to heal her mother's boarding-school past.
3.91
2k+
🏫 Indian Boarding Schools🧬 Intergenerational Trauma🔍 Investigative Memoir🔐 Family Secrets🪶 Ojibwe Culture
Medicine River Summary
Medicine River 91%
A dress with 365 jingles: one Ojibwe woman dancing to heal her mother's boarding-school past.
by Mary Annette Pember 2025
3.91
2k+ ratings
🏫 Indian Boarding Schools🧬 Intergenerational Trauma🔍 Investigative Memoir🔐 Family Secrets🪶 Ojibwe Culture
Active Hope
by Joanna Macy • 2012
Despair for the world is a sign of sanity. A practice for turning that pain into action.
4.10
2k+
🏔️ Deep Ecology🌍 Climate Grief🌿 Ecospirituality💪 Activist Resilience🧘 Engaged Buddhism
Active Hope Summary
Active Hope 91%
Despair for the world is a sign of sanity. A practice for turning that pain into action.
by Joanna Macy 2012
4.10
2k+ ratings
🏔️ Deep Ecology🌍 Climate Grief🌿 Ecospirituality💪 Activist Resilience🧘 Engaged Buddhism
Becoming Animal
by David Abram • 2010
Literacy silenced the land; reconnection runs through the body, the birds, and the air.
4.18
2k+
🌍 Environmental Philosophy🪨 Animism🌀 Phenomenology🐺 More-Than-Human World🌲 Deep Ecology
Becoming Animal Summary
Becoming Animal 91%
Literacy silenced the land; reconnection runs through the body, the birds, and the air.
by David Abram 2010
4.18
2k+ ratings
🌍 Environmental Philosophy🪨 Animism🌀 Phenomenology🐺 More-Than-Human World🌲 Deep Ecology
Trespassing Across America
by Ken Ilgunas • 2016
He walked the Keystone XL pipeline illegally. The land and its people changed him.
3.82
2k+
🛢️ Fossil Fuel Industry✊ Environmental Activism🚶 Walking Journeys🤔 Existential Travel🌾 Rural America
Trespassing Across America Summary
Trespassing Across America 91%
He walked the Keystone XL pipeline illegally. The land and its people changed him.
by Ken Ilgunas 2016
3.82
2k+ ratings
🛢️ Fossil Fuel Industry✊ Environmental Activism🚶 Walking Journeys🤔 Existential Travel🌾 Rural America
The End of Nature
by Bill McKibben • 1989
Nature once stood apart from human affairs. We altered the atmosphere, and that separation fell.
3.94
3k+
🌍 Anthropocene Philosophy🌿 Deep Ecology⚖️ Environmental Ethics🏭 Greenhouse Effect🐾 Biodiversity Loss
The End of Nature Summary
The End of Nature 91%
Nature once stood apart from human affairs. We altered the atmosphere, and that separation fell.
by Bill McKibben 1989
3.94
3k+ ratings
🌍 Anthropocene Philosophy🌿 Deep Ecology⚖️ Environmental Ethics🏭 Greenhouse Effect🐾 Biodiversity Loss
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
by Dipesh Chakrabarty • 2021
All our political concepts assume a stable planet. The Anthropocene reveals it never was.
3.68
142
🏞️ Anthropocene Theory⏳ Deep Time⚖️ Climate Justice📜 Historiography🌍 Postcolonial Theory
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age Summary
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age 91%
All our political concepts assume a stable planet. The Anthropocene reveals it never was.
by Dipesh Chakrabarty 2021
3.68
142 ratings
🏞️ Anthropocene Theory⏳ Deep Time⚖️ Climate Justice📜 Historiography🌍 Postcolonial Theory
Megafire
by Michael Kodas • 2017
A century of putting out every fire made the forests a tinderbox. Now climate change is the match.
4.01
254
🔥 Wildfire🏕️ Forest Ecology🌪️ Climate Disasters📋 Environmental Policy🌲 Land Management
Megafire Summary
Megafire 91%
A century of putting out every fire made the forests a tinderbox. Now climate change is the match.
by Michael Kodas 2017
4.01
254 ratings
🔥 Wildfire🏕️ Forest Ecology🌪️ Climate Disasters📋 Environmental Policy🌲 Land Management
The Secret Knowledge of Water
by Craig Childs • 2000
To understand water, go to the land without it. A quest for hidden pools, caves, and desert floods.
4.29
3k+
🏜️ Desert Ecology💧 Desert Hydrology✍️ Lyrical Nature Writing🕳️ Hidden Worlds⛰️ Sacred Landscapes
The Secret Knowledge of Water Summary
The Secret Knowledge of Water 91%
To understand water, go to the land without it. A quest for hidden pools, caves, and desert floods.
by Craig Childs 2000
4.29
3k+ ratings
🏜️ Desert Ecology💧 Desert Hydrology✍️ Lyrical Nature Writing🕳️ Hidden Worlds⛰️ Sacred Landscapes
Falter
by Bill McKibben • 2019
Engineers want to redesign humans as the climate exit. The two crises share a cause.
4.00
2k+
🤖 Tech Ethics⚠️ Existential Risk🛢️ Fossil Fuel Deception☀️ Renewable Energy✊ Nonviolent Resistance
Falter Summary
Falter 91%
Engineers want to redesign humans as the climate exit. The two crises share a cause.
by Bill McKibben 2019
4.00
2k+ ratings
🤖 Tech Ethics⚠️ Existential Risk🛢️ Fossil Fuel Deception☀️ Renewable Energy✊ Nonviolent Resistance
The Story of Stuff
by Annie Leonard • 2010
A five-stage global machine grinds resources into toxic waste. The owners call it the economy.
4.08
4k+
📉 Consumerism Critique🔄 Product Life Cycles⚖️ Environmental Justice♻️ Circular Economy☣️ Toxic Chemicals
The Story of Stuff Summary
The Story of Stuff 91%
A five-stage global machine grinds resources into toxic waste. The owners call it the economy.
by Annie Leonard 2010
4.08
4k+ ratings
📉 Consumerism Critique🔄 Product Life Cycles⚖️ Environmental Justice♻️ Circular Economy☣️ Toxic Chemicals
Back to Earth
by Nicole Stott • 2021
From orbit, Earth has no borders. An astronaut's argument for upgrading from passenger to crew.
3.91
219
🚀 Astronaut Memoirs🌿 Ecological Memoir🌎 The Overview Effect🛡️ Environmental Stewardship⚡ Climate Action
Back to Earth Summary
Back to Earth 91%
From orbit, Earth has no borders. An astronaut's argument for upgrading from passenger to crew.
by Nicole Stott 2021
3.91
219 ratings
🚀 Astronaut Memoirs🌿 Ecological Memoir🌎 The Overview Effect🛡️ Environmental Stewardship⚡ Climate Action
From the Ashes
by Jesse Thistle • 2019
Addiction took his home and nearly his leg. His lost Métis identity showed him another way.
4.49
35k+
🪶 Indigenous Memoir💊 Addiction Recovery🧬 Intergenerational Trauma🍃 Cultural Reclamation🏕️ Survival Memoir
From the Ashes Summary
From the Ashes 91%
Addiction took his home and nearly his leg. His lost Métis identity showed him another way.
by Jesse Thistle 2019
4.49
35k+ ratings
🪶 Indigenous Memoir💊 Addiction Recovery🧬 Intergenerational Trauma🍃 Cultural Reclamation🏕️ Survival Memoir
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
by Vandana Shiva • 2015
Agribusiness didn't end hunger. Small farms, producing 70% of food on 30% of land, feed us.
3.96
436
🌱 Agroecology✊ Food Sovereignty🏭 Industrial Agriculture🪱 Living Soil🌾 Seed Sovereignty
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology Summary
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology 91%
Agribusiness didn't end hunger. Small farms, producing 70% of food on 30% of land, feed us.
by Vandana Shiva 2015
3.96
436 ratings
🌱 Agroecology✊ Food Sovereignty🏭 Industrial Agriculture🪱 Living Soil🌾 Seed Sovereignty
Under a White Sky
by Elizabeth Kolbert • 2021
Every environmental solution spawns a new problem. The next ones alter genes and block the sun.
4.10
13k+
🏭 Anthropocene Studies📰 Science Journalism🌿 Ecological Intervention🌋 Geoengineering🐟 Invasive Species
Under a White Sky Summary
Under a White Sky 91%
Every environmental solution spawns a new problem. The next ones alter genes and block the sun.
by Elizabeth Kolbert 2021
4.10
13k+ ratings
🏭 Anthropocene Studies📰 Science Journalism🌿 Ecological Intervention🌋 Geoengineering🐟 Invasive Species
Seeing Like a State
by James C. Scott • 1998
Why grand state plans fail: the same simplifications that make society governable make it fragile.
4.21
7k+
🏛️ Political Theory🏗️ State Planning🌱 Local Knowledge🚧 Development Critique🌿 Ecological Thinking
Seeing Like a State Summary
Seeing Like a State 91%
Why grand state plans fail: the same simplifications that make society governable make it fragile.
by James C. Scott 1998
4.21
7k+ ratings
🏛️ Political Theory🏗️ State Planning🌱 Local Knowledge🚧 Development Critique🌿 Ecological Thinking
The Future We Choose
by Christiana Figueres • 2020
Halve emissions by 2030 or lose a livable planet: the Paris Agreement architect's ten moves.
4.05
7k+
🌍 Climate Crisis⚡ Climate Action😢 Climate Grief☀️ Renewable Energy⚖️ Environmental Justice
The Future We Choose Summary
The Future We Choose 91%
Halve emissions by 2030 or lose a livable planet: the Paris Agreement architect's ten moves.
by Christiana Figueres 2020
4.05
7k+ ratings
🌍 Climate Crisis⚡ Climate Action😢 Climate Grief☀️ Renewable Energy⚖️ Environmental Justice
BOOM
by Tony Horwitz • 2014
From oil sands to Gulf Coast: a pipeline route where roughnecks, strippers, and ranchers collide.
3.89
713
🛢️ Energy Politics🏭 Oil Industry📰 Narrative Journalism🗺️ Travelogue🌍 Environmental Justice
BOOM Summary
BOOM 91%
From oil sands to Gulf Coast: a pipeline route where roughnecks, strippers, and ranchers collide.
by Tony Horwitz 2014
3.89
713 ratings
🛢️ Energy Politics🏭 Oil Industry📰 Narrative Journalism🗺️ Travelogue🌍 Environmental Justice
Our Angry Earth
by Isaac Asimov • 1991
Asimov connected climate change, ozone loss, toxic waste, and soil erosion: four alarms, one fire.
3.71
126
🌍 Environmental Crises🌡️ Climate Science🏭 Pollution🌳 Habitat Loss☀️ Renewable Energy
Our Angry Earth Summary
Our Angry Earth 91%
Asimov connected climate change, ozone loss, toxic waste, and soil erosion: four alarms, one fire.
by Isaac Asimov 1991
3.71
126 ratings
🌍 Environmental Crises🌡️ Climate Science🏭 Pollution🌳 Habitat Loss☀️ Renewable Energy
The Reason You Walk
by Wab Kinew • 2015
His father endured residential school. His final lesson: how to forgive, and how to die.
4.07
4k+
🧡 Indigenous Memoir🏚️ Residential Schools🪶 Anishinaabe Culture🤝 Reconciliation✊ Indigenous Activism
The Reason You Walk Summary
The Reason You Walk 91%
His father endured residential school. His final lesson: how to forgive, and how to die.
by Wab Kinew 2015
4.07
4k+ ratings
🧡 Indigenous Memoir🏚️ Residential Schools🪶 Anishinaabe Culture🤝 Reconciliation✊ Indigenous Activism
Pastoral Song
by James Rebanks • 2020
The old ways fed birdsong and bellies. A farmer's argument for mending what cheap food broke.
4.42
8k+
🌱 Regenerative Agriculture🚜 Traditional Farming🪱 Soil Health📖 Agrarian Memoir🍽️ Food Systems Critique
Pastoral Song Summary
Pastoral Song 91%
The old ways fed birdsong and bellies. A farmer's argument for mending what cheap food broke.
by James Rebanks 2020
4.42
8k+ ratings
🌱 Regenerative Agriculture🚜 Traditional Farming🪱 Soil Health📖 Agrarian Memoir🍽️ Food Systems Critique
No Impact Man
by Colin Beavan • 2009
90 gallons of trash in 4 days: a Manhattan family aims for zero, for a year.
3.78
5k+
🏙️ Urban Sustainability🧪 Lifestyle Experiments🗑️ Waste Reduction🥕 Local Food🧘 Voluntary Simplicity
No Impact Man Summary
No Impact Man 91%
90 gallons of trash in 4 days: a Manhattan family aims for zero, for a year.
by Colin Beavan 2009
3.78
5k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Sustainability🧪 Lifestyle Experiments🗑️ Waste Reduction🥕 Local Food🧘 Voluntary Simplicity
1491
by Charles C. Mann • 2005
A hemisphere of cities, empires, and millions, emptied by smallpox before colonists arrived.
4.05
96k+
🏛️ Pre-Columbian History🗿 Indigenous Civilizations📖 Revisionist History🌍 Columbian Exchange🌿 Indigenous Knowledge
1491 Summary
1491 91%
A hemisphere of cities, empires, and millions, emptied by smallpox before colonists arrived.
by Charles C. Mann 2005
4.05
96k+ ratings
🏛️ Pre-Columbian History🗿 Indigenous Civilizations📖 Revisionist History🌍 Columbian Exchange🌿 Indigenous Knowledge
The Spell of the Sensuous
by David Abram • 1996
The alphabet didn't just capture speech. It taught us the natural world had nothing to say.
4.17
5k+
🌀 Phenomenology🌍 Environmental Philosophy🦊 Animism👁️ Embodied Perception🌿 Deep Ecology
The Spell of the Sensuous Summary
The Spell of the Sensuous 91%
The alphabet didn't just capture speech. It taught us the natural world had nothing to say.
by David Abram 1996
4.17
5k+ ratings
🌀 Phenomenology🌍 Environmental Philosophy🦊 Animism👁️ Embodied Perception🌿 Deep Ecology
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • 2014
Genocide, not liberty, built America. The counterinsurgency tactics born here now circle the globe.
4.37
21k+
🏚️ Settler Colonialism🪶 Native American History📚 Revisionist History🕯️ Genocide Studies🌱 Decolonial Thought
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Summary
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States 91%
Genocide, not liberty, built America. The counterinsurgency tactics born here now circle the globe.
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 2014
4.37
21k+ ratings
🏚️ Settler Colonialism🪶 Native American History📚 Revisionist History🕯️ Genocide Studies🌱 Decolonial Thought
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